Melinda Salisbury

Melinda Salisbury is a young adult fiction author from the West Midlands that has made a name for herself with “The Sin Eater’s Daughter” series of novels. Growing up, Melinda always dreamt of becoming a veterinary practitioner as she always loved animals. She even had a fantasy of being arrested for breaking into a test facility to illegally release the animals kept there. Nonetheless, she was also an elaborate world builder in her childhood and would fiddle with decorative glass stones organizing them into green for villains, blue for armies, yellow for servants, and red for royals. She would also act out love affairs between queens and jesters, and princes and witches. She would spend days or even weeks tweaking and building a plot and world for her characters much like she now does with her young adult series. It all came easy to her given that she has never been one to find entertainment in reality preferring the fantasy genre to any other. As such, she does not like any reality TV or soap opera preferring more rustic TV in the mold of “The Musketeers” or the “Vikings” which offer a fantasy life much different from hers. As for her preference for young adult fiction, Melinda is drawn to the stories of people figuring out who they are and their place in society which is what she argues everyone tries to do.